TEAM 14 SELECTED!
After a thorough application process 35 new KaosPilot aspirants have been selected for the new Team 14 – though not landed yet. Landed has however Team 13, who went through the same process last year. Read what made them wanna be a KaosPilot. Also read what a KaosPilot education can lead to having left the air base in Mejlgade, Aarhus. …Lying thousands upon thousands of kilometres from Baghdad – the distance long, the life conditions even further away. You can find the documentation for this visiting the web documentary series about life in Baghdad, initiated by a dear KaosPilot International board member, Laurie Meadoff. Back in Denmark the summer holiday is coming up, also for the editor. Therefore, we made a calendar to keep you posted on the most important KaosPilot events during June-August. Join the events when possible and remember: the KaosPilots is also about socializing and meeting at the dance floor...;-) Looking forward to get back with recharged batteries and new news by the end of August!
KAOSPILOT MONTHLY 5/2007
KAOSPILOT MONTHLY 5/2007
TEAM 14 FOUND After a thorough application process testing the applicants’ competences within creativity, action, change, team-work, playfulness, risk-taking and social commitment etc, 35 KaosPilot aspirants have been selected for Team 14. The final test took place during a sunny admission workshop on April 26-27 within a really strong field of applicants and excellent workshop performances. Find the names of the participants who got through the eye of the needle:
Abdul Kader Moses Anders Dyrholm Andreas Nørlem Christensen Anne Bach Pedersen Astrid Emilie Schrøder Camilla Stisen Gammel Ditte Graa Wulff Eleonor Bergström Emma Nilsson Erik A. Rodin Esben Valløe Gorka Luis Cardona-Lauridsen Gro Mygind Gunvor Jøsendal Jonas Skafte Kasper Zederkof Pedersen Kim Hall Damsgaard Andersen Kristian Schwarz Larsen Lama Mahmud Juma Line Krogh Jensen Louise Dalsgaard Lukas Christensen Mads Damsgaard Kristiansen Maja Brita Hauan Maja Quist Hansen Maria Richter Simsek Marlene Hørfarter Mette Elmgaard Pedersen Morten Nottelmann Peter Aarhus Rasmus Steengaard René Sune Sørensen Rikhard Egedal Sarita Patel Simon Holmgaard Christensen Trine Hindø
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NEW SERVICES
INTRAPRENANTEN – a 7-month education for all fiery souls who has the potential to transform hot ideas into viable projects and the will to make a positive difference for the organization they are part of.
What made them wanna be a KaosPilot? Team 14 starting up on August 27 2007, Team 13 are still the ‘youngest ones’ with the most recent memory about the application process and what made them wanna become a KaosPilot. Read two very different approaches.
NoRtH aMeRiCaN KaOsPiLoT By November Sky (USA), Team 13 Today we talk about being “change ready” and I often think back to that moment in October, sitting at work and within minutes deciding that I was not only going to apply to the KaosPilots but that I was in fact going to get on Team 13 and move to Denmark to study in Aarhus….
From tribal fighting in Basra to consensus democracy in Århus. By Torben Brandt (Denmark), Team 13 One year ago, I was on patrols with the Danish military in Basra, Iraq. Besides the roadside bombs, rocket attacks, tribes fighting in 100 years old disputes and the heat, I was thinking a lot about the KaosPilots….
KAOSROYAL – turn loose the corporate creativity! What should be done when a personnel day is to be held outside work premises and preferably contain professional input as well as a social element? Check out our new services at www.kaospilot.dk
KAOSPILOT MONTHLY 5/2007
airborn pilots What’s at the end of the rainbow? Find a selection of the KaosPilot life paths after graduating. Worth a Golden Dragon A strong entrepreneurial spirit, social responsibility, to do what you burn for and the strong belief that everything is possible. Just to mention a few of the competences characterizing the music booking manager Johanna Beckmann, who was selected as Person of the Year 2007 by the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter.
Double-up Pilot Matti Straub-Fischer’s boyhood dream was to become a helicopter pilot. He started up with a KaosPilot certification and complemented it with a helicopter certification in April 2007.
Business Training among the Masaais As a project leader for Lorika Business Club training the Masaais’ business skills, Nike Kondalis is used to face several challenges such as kicking off the whole LORIKA project from scratch, dealing with poisonous snakes and aggressive buffalos, drinking blood from the warm neck of a dead goat and going to work in a small single engine plane. Please find the full stories at www.kaospilot.dk – and check out the new KaosPilot Alumni interviews for a more detailed picture about what the KaosPilot education can lead to.
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hometown baghdad Together with burning for the KaosPilots, the KaosPilot International board members burn for a lot of other agendas. Laurie Meadoff (US) is a KaosPilot International board member – and the producer behind Hometown Baghdad, an on-going web documentary series about life in Baghdad putting new standards to reality TV. The series follows the lives of a few Iraqi 20-somethings who want to show the world what life is like when your hometown is a war-zone. The key figures see the world from the upper-middleclass point of view – a quite conscious aiming trying to reach the Western YouTube-generation at eye-level. An aiming so far a global hit. Close to 2 million videos have been viewed and the series has received good press in the international press – lately with a full page press description in one of the biggest opinion forming newspapers in Denmark, Information. Hometown Baghdad is a production of NY-based Chat the Planet who worked with a group of Iraqi film makers in Baghdad. Chat the Planet is a global dialogue company connecting people from around the world to talk about everything from politics, prejudices and war to sex, music and life in general. Follow the series at http://www.hometownbaghdad.com/ or check out http://www.chattheplanet.com/
UPCOMING EVENTS
KAOSPILOT MONTHLY 5/2007
June 01-06 04-08 05 07 08 11-13
Team 11 oral exams continuous – find the project descriptions and exam dates at www.kaospilot.dk Team 13 oral exams – find the project descriptions and exam dates at www.kaospilot.dk Team 2/Norway Economy exam Team 12 exam – presentation of the Vancouver outpost Team 2/Norway Entrepreneurship exam
15 21-22
Every year when the students graduate they go back to the same place in the northern part of Denmark as they started – to round off the education. This year, the time has come for Team 11. Team 1/Norway present Buenos Aires project Graduation gala at Musikhuset in Aarhus and subsequent party at the school in Mejlgade. End-of-term celebration/Norway Admission workshop for the KaosPilots Netherlands
July
Holiday
13-14 15
August 06 07-08 14-18 17 17 20 20 24 27
KaosPilots Aarhus Staff seminar KaosPilot International Staff Seminar Emax Nordic conference at Örebro (www.emaxnordic.com) with participation of KaosPilots Norway Opening Index Design Award exhibition First Alumni-gathering. Meet your class mates in Copenhagen and tell us what you would love the KaosPilot Alumni to hold. Team 12 & 13 upstart Start of semester/Norway Index Design Award: Who wins the Index Design Award? The jury removes the curtain. Team 14 upstart
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